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I'm having trouble getting a visual on this! ;)

Mark

In addition to a 119 sq ft cabin on a Royal Caribbean ship, I had an attic room at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Caernarfon that was so small I experience deja vous when I see Harry Potter sleeping under the stairs at the Dursley's.

I spent one night at a Tokyo "Capsule" hotel, you ain't too far off if you imagine yourself sleeping in a rounded coffin.
As for standard hotel rooms, the smallest I have ever stayed was the Nikko Narita. Not sure how much it costs since it was comped by JAL. That thing can't be more than 100 sq.ft. (Good breakfast buffet though).

Yes but...
 

...one of the 4 or 5 channels on the tv screen above your head has porn! :D
...we decided to stay one night instead of schlepping all the way back to the hotel...my co-worker banging on the wall in between our "rooms" yelling "chanel 4 put on channel 4" it could have been worse :)

I once had a room near LGW and the loo was so small there wasn't room for the entire toilet, the top part of the bowl was made (literally plastered) into the wall. The seat was missing 20% on that side.....

In the US i've stayed at the Holiday Inn Martinque in NYC. those rooms were the smallest I've ever seen in the US. Outside of the US was obviously Japan. (basicly the size of a queen size bed with an extra 1foot longer and 2 feet wider. (no joking)

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FWIW, the Holiday Inn Martinique, was a former SRO hotel, now delightfully refurbished.

Curiously, it also served as the site of a recent Freddie Awards dinner. I believe this was two and one half years ago.


Mark

my mom and i stayed at club quarters in downtown NYC. i asked for two beds in a nice size room. to my SHOCK we were given a "director" room. there wasnt enough room to change your mind. needless to say, staying in that room with my mother was NOT going to happen. ended up with an executive suite corner room. very nice! the first room was seriously small.

Tokyo Station Hotel. Can you say sardine can?

Just about any "single" room in these small European hotels is gonna be tiny! Smallest one I was put in was at this cheapie in London round about 1998 - think it £35 per night, shared bath down the hall. Width had to be less than 6', think I could have just barely laid on the floor width-wise (and I'm 5'3"). Could BARELY get by the bed to the sink, no where to put luggage without having to move it every time one wanted to use the sink. Too claustrophobic even for me, I went down and asked for a different room and they did give me a much more spacious Queen bed room (for the same price).

Smallest North American room was probably at the Crowne Plaza Georgia in Vancouver, main part was just the width of the Queen bed and not big desk side-by-side and length just wide enough to walk back and forth. Was fine for me, but would be really tight for two. Nice hotel though and $40 on Priceline! Have a feeling the classic double room I will be staying in this weekend at the Bulfinch Hotel in Boston may beat the Crowne Plaza though but, again, nice place and the price is right...

I haven't stayed at a capsule hotel in Japan, but I did stay in a hotel room (in Osaka, or maybe Hiroshima - I can't remember which) where I could stand in the middle of the room and touch both opposing walls at the same time.

I've also had single rooms in London that were only a little bit larger than that, but a lot more expensive.

Corporate travel has spoiled me, I don't know if I could put up with rooms that small these days.

Ahhh this brings back memories of Kyoto. I stayed at Ryokan Shimizu near Kyoto Station. I had an excellent authentic tatami mat room to myself with private bath and shower and toilet room. Amazing...utterly amazing. But the hallway to the main room from both bathroom and toilet opposing each other on the hallway, was a bear. I have broad shoulders and my shoulders almost touched the wall on each side of this wooden floored hallway.

Sanosuke!

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I don't think those capsules really count as hotel rooms. They're capsules, after all. They seem to me to be in another category.

European rooms are generally tiny. I stayed in a room without bath at the Hotel Monna Lisa in Florence that was the size of a walkin closet, with one tiny twin bed. It was absolutely charming, however, with antique rugs and furniture (a little dresser at one end), so I remember it fondly.

The thing for me is: I don't mind a small room, but not when you're paying top dollar! That's why the W and the Paramount are a ripoff.

When I saw this thread title, my immediate memory was the first time I stayed at the Paramount, about 10 years ago. I arrived while a big event was going on, and the only room available was not much bigger than my bed. It must have been one of the 101 sq ft. rooms. I laughed it off, but will never do that again. ;)

fduvall

Smallest room I ever had in the US was a motel in, of all places, Goodland, Kansas off I-70. The room fit a double bed, a small metal clothes rack & suitcase stand, an old fashioned radiator, and a TV hung from the ceiling like one would find in an hospital. There was perhaps 30" of clearance on one side and the foot of the bed, with the other side and head pushed against the wall. A door at the back opened on the bathroom which resembled a modern pullman car's facilities, with miniture sink, shower and toilet. The whole place was a little shabby, and smelled faintly of mold.

The only good thing was I only paid $17.50 for the night.